This was an awesome post Beekey! I totally understand what you said at the end there about the job of manager being hard to grasp for newly promoted engineers because they’re so used to productivity being mostly tied to themselves and not a team. It’s very interesting just how reliant businesses are on software engineer production right out of the gate. Is there ever a time for team building or bonding to strengthen the team?
I always found team lunches to be very effective at getting a team to bond. Humans evolved to build trust while breaking bread. Everyone also needs to eat, why not eat together? You get a stronger team without having to dedicate time for it.
That doesn't work with remote teams. You do have to schedule an onsite for everyone, which is expensive. It is still worth doing and a lot of the benefits can be gained by just one. Any decent manager will easily notice the productivity difference before and after the first onsite.
This was an awesome post Beekey! I totally understand what you said at the end there about the job of manager being hard to grasp for newly promoted engineers because they’re so used to productivity being mostly tied to themselves and not a team. It’s very interesting just how reliant businesses are on software engineer production right out of the gate. Is there ever a time for team building or bonding to strengthen the team?
I always found team lunches to be very effective at getting a team to bond. Humans evolved to build trust while breaking bread. Everyone also needs to eat, why not eat together? You get a stronger team without having to dedicate time for it.
That doesn't work with remote teams. You do have to schedule an onsite for everyone, which is expensive. It is still worth doing and a lot of the benefits can be gained by just one. Any decent manager will easily notice the productivity difference before and after the first onsite.